Tag: sewing
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Spring super update
Things have been a bit up in the air here – not with Stitch 4 Kids, with me personally. S4K is like a freight train rolling along the tracks and nothing’s going to stop it! We have now a total of around 1,300 dresses over the last 22 months, an amazing amount and beyond my…
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Patterns
We have 3 patterns on our Get Involved page for girls’ dresses.These are either printable on A4 paper or consist of measurements and instructions.If you don’t have a printer you can go to your local library, printshop or Warehouse Stationery. Good Deeds dress pattern The Good Deeds dress prints on the usual A4 paper and…
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Making sure every scrap is used – a new project
Meet the Yo-Yo quilt. These were most popular from the 1920’s to the 1940’s. A lot of people will not have seen them before, I read about them and had a lightbulb moment. At present we give all our scraps to our member Helen to make quilted bags and various other beauties. Helen’s feeling a…
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Mid-winter sewing update
It’s hard to believe we’re heading to the end of July rapidly. The weather’s been great for staying inside, snug as a bug, sewing your heart out. Stitching news At our last Meet-Up on 12th July we had a total of 97 dresses and 25 shorts arrive with their sewers. This was a month’s work…
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Annie’s autumn update
It’s been a busy month for Stitch 4 Kids. We have been madly making dresses and sourcing fabric. Fabric donations We’ve had several wonderful generous donations of fabric from people who have seen our posts on Facebook, these random donations are always extremely welcome, the more the better. The more fabric we have the more…
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